Jack Bauer offers deliverance from Voight's terrorist threat

Another season of 24, another movie star making the move to television. Jon Voight will first appear in the much anticipated TV movie in November, and then return halfway through Season 7. He'll be playing the mastermind behind the terrorist threat that Jack Bauer will inevitably thwart. Expect Voight's character to employ more than a few moles in the FBI and government, and to have the amazing ability to slip through the tightest perimeter. He'll probably end up being Jack's uncle, too.

Details on Season 7's plot and a trailer after the jump.

Things are looking promising for both the TV movie and Season 7.

The TV movie sees Jack in South Africa, a lost and tortured soul who joins up with Scotland's own Bobby Carlyle. Jack being Jack, he becomes involved in a coup against the government, while his own government in the United States seeks his return to testify in front of Congress.

Season 7 picks up a little while later, with Jack in Washington D.C explaining his actions throughout the years. CTU has been disbanded, but Jack is recruited by the FBI to help with the crisis du jour - cyberterrorists wreaking havoc across the country. The reason they've turned to Jack? The terrorists are being led by none other than Tony Almeida. No longer dead, and with the soulpatch front and centre, this isn't the Tony we remember.

On the political front, we see our first female president, Allison Taylor, played by the highly regarded Cherry Jones. Perhaps Hillary Clinton would have fared better with the American electorate had they been able to see a positive portrayal of a female commander-in-chief on television (and no, Geena Davis does not count).